Raen (she/her)
@raeniedaze.bsky.social
Daydreamer. Writer. Imposter. Perpetually restless.
#amquerying
#amquerying
I managed to break the spacebar on my laptop and it feels like a metaphor.
September 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I managed to break the spacebar on my laptop and it feels like a metaphor.
made a little cameo on my colleague's awesome podcast - Wild Libraries
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Wild Libraries Ep # 45 - Australia, mate
Podcast Episode · Wild Libraries · 05/23/2025 · 35m
podcasts.apple.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
made a little cameo on my colleague's awesome podcast - Wild Libraries
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Who are the five writers who made you?
Virginia Andrews
Salmon Rushdie
Oscar Wilde
Janette Winterson
Isabel Allende
Virginia Andrews
Salmon Rushdie
Oscar Wilde
Janette Winterson
Isabel Allende
Who are the five writers who made you?
JRR Tolkien
Ursula Le Guin
CS Lewis
Joan Aiken
Jenny Nimmo
JRR Tolkien
Ursula Le Guin
CS Lewis
Joan Aiken
Jenny Nimmo
Who are the five writers who made you?
Kurt Vonnegut
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
Shirley Jackson
Judith Kerr
Kurt Vonnegut
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
Shirley Jackson
Judith Kerr
March 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Who are the five writers who made you?
Virginia Andrews
Salmon Rushdie
Oscar Wilde
Janette Winterson
Isabel Allende
Virginia Andrews
Salmon Rushdie
Oscar Wilde
Janette Winterson
Isabel Allende
I can make gourmet meals from random ingredients at the back of the pantry.
Repost with your apocalypse skill:
I know a lot of buffy quotes so this will be useful for conserving the sum of human knowledge when the internet dies
I know a lot of buffy quotes so this will be useful for conserving the sum of human knowledge when the internet dies
been thinking about this for many years, and all I've got to offer is "significant source of protein"
February 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I can make gourmet meals from random ingredients at the back of the pantry.
I have a day off and was going to write, but instead I've reversed my car into my neighbour's trailer and now have to deal with insurance and repairs.
February 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I have a day off and was going to write, but instead I've reversed my car into my neighbour's trailer and now have to deal with insurance and repairs.
Saw a colleague for the first time in a while and I couldn't tell if he'd shaved or had been recast
February 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Saw a colleague for the first time in a while and I couldn't tell if he'd shaved or had been recast
it was 12 degrees last night and some colleagues said they couldn't sleep because it was too hot and I laughed in Australian
February 3, 2025 at 5:34 AM
it was 12 degrees last night and some colleagues said they couldn't sleep because it was too hot and I laughed in Australian
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Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...
The Next Official #MSWL Day: February 12, 2025 – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
manuscriptwishlist.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...
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This doc is one of THE BEST for querying authors (or anyone really trying to get their word count under control).
USE IT
#WriteSky
USE IT
#WriteSky
#writingcommunity Here’s a #queryingtip for you: with the rare exception, I start to get hives at anything over 100K words. When it hits 120K, I have a full outbreak. By 130K, regardless of genre, it’s a hard no.
Here’s a doc that might help you cut words:
www.tinyurl.com/saveyourdarlings.
Here’s a doc that might help you cut words:
www.tinyurl.com/saveyourdarlings.
Save Your Darlings.docx
Save Your Darlings: Editing Strategies to Reduce Your Word Count Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong, Literary Agent Marsal Lyon Literary Agency Email: cathie@marsallyonliteraryagency.com Queries: querymanager....
www.tinyurl.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This doc is one of THE BEST for querying authors (or anyone really trying to get their word count under control).
USE IT
#WriteSky
USE IT
#WriteSky
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Reposted by Raen (she/her)
Percy Jackson meets The Thursday Murder Club".
Ines, a young girl in a wheelchair, discovers the greek heroes aren't dead, they're just in a retirement home. When one of them is killed, she has to solve the mystey before her new friends go to war.
Or break a hip.
Possibly both.
#2025pit #MG #F
Ines, a young girl in a wheelchair, discovers the greek heroes aren't dead, they're just in a retirement home. When one of them is killed, she has to solve the mystey before her new friends go to war.
Or break a hip.
Possibly both.
#2025pit #MG #F
January 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I tried to make a joke about Narcissus but I needed more reflection
I tried to make a joke about Pandora but I couldn't think outside the box.
Tried to make a “your mom” joke about Oedipus but I couldn’t bear to look at it
January 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I tried to make a joke about Narcissus but I needed more reflection
not saying I'm old, but I'm at the 'learn how to wear progressives' stage of my life.
any tips to avoid getting see sick?
any tips to avoid getting see sick?
January 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
not saying I'm old, but I'm at the 'learn how to wear progressives' stage of my life.
any tips to avoid getting see sick?
any tips to avoid getting see sick?
I'm in that kind of mood where you do the online IQ test. The last step was to give them my email. I didn't do it, so obviously I outsmarted them. But now I'll never get my results so I'll never know.
January 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I'm in that kind of mood where you do the online IQ test. The last step was to give them my email. I didn't do it, so obviously I outsmarted them. But now I'll never get my results so I'll never know.
Fun thing about query tracker is that it gives me an additional platform to obsess over (even though it auto-generates emails)
#writingcommunity #amquerying #writerslife
#writingcommunity #amquerying #writerslife
January 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Fun thing about query tracker is that it gives me an additional platform to obsess over (even though it auto-generates emails)
#writingcommunity #amquerying #writerslife
#writingcommunity #amquerying #writerslife
I'm not sure what this felt like in the 90s but now it hits like a ballad of middle-age regret
youtu.be/kz7fCbwZUfA?...
youtu.be/kz7fCbwZUfA?...
Powderfinger- These Days (Music Video)
YouTube video by SmaggyProductions
youtu.be
January 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I'm not sure what this felt like in the 90s but now it hits like a ballad of middle-age regret
youtu.be/kz7fCbwZUfA?...
youtu.be/kz7fCbwZUfA?...
#booksky #writingcommunity #kidlit
Please help me find a recent upper-MG comp to Pullman's Northern Lights / The Golden Compass.
Preferably not portal magic or magic academy tropes.
Bonus points if it centres the daemon / mythical creature instead of a child protagonist.
Please help me find a recent upper-MG comp to Pullman's Northern Lights / The Golden Compass.
Preferably not portal magic or magic academy tropes.
Bonus points if it centres the daemon / mythical creature instead of a child protagonist.
a black and white photo of a young girl holding a mouse on her shoulder and saying `` we know the rules pan '' .
Alt: a black and white photo of Lyra, a young girl, holding an ermine on her shoulder and saying `` we know the rules, Pan '' .
media.tenor.com
January 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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#booksky #writingcommunity #kidlit
Please help me find a recent upper-MG comp to Pullman's Northern Lights / The Golden Compass.
Preferably not portal magic or magic academy tropes.
Bonus points if it centres the daemon / mythical creature instead of a child protagonist.
Please help me find a recent upper-MG comp to Pullman's Northern Lights / The Golden Compass.
Preferably not portal magic or magic academy tropes.
Bonus points if it centres the daemon / mythical creature instead of a child protagonist.
a black and white photo of a young girl holding a mouse on her shoulder and saying `` we know the rules pan '' .
Alt: a black and white photo of Lyra, a young girl, holding an ermine on her shoulder and saying `` we know the rules, Pan '' .
media.tenor.com
January 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
#booksky #writingcommunity #kidlit
Please help me find a recent upper-MG comp to Pullman's Northern Lights / The Golden Compass.
Preferably not portal magic or magic academy tropes.
Bonus points if it centres the daemon / mythical creature instead of a child protagonist.
Please help me find a recent upper-MG comp to Pullman's Northern Lights / The Golden Compass.
Preferably not portal magic or magic academy tropes.
Bonus points if it centres the daemon / mythical creature instead of a child protagonist.
#booksky #writingcommunity #kidlit
Please help me find a recent upper-MG comp to Pullman's Northern Lights / The Golden Compass.
Preferably not portal magic or magic academy tropes.
Bonus points if it centres the daemon / mythical creature instead of a child protagonist.
Please help me find a recent upper-MG comp to Pullman's Northern Lights / The Golden Compass.
Preferably not portal magic or magic academy tropes.
Bonus points if it centres the daemon / mythical creature instead of a child protagonist.
a black and white photo of a young girl holding a mouse on her shoulder and saying `` we know the rules pan '' .
Alt: a black and white photo of Lyra, a young girl, holding an ermine on her shoulder and saying `` we know the rules, Pan '' .
media.tenor.com
January 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
#booksky #writingcommunity #kidlit
Please help me find a recent upper-MG comp to Pullman's Northern Lights / The Golden Compass.
Preferably not portal magic or magic academy tropes.
Bonus points if it centres the daemon / mythical creature instead of a child protagonist.
Please help me find a recent upper-MG comp to Pullman's Northern Lights / The Golden Compass.
Preferably not portal magic or magic academy tropes.
Bonus points if it centres the daemon / mythical creature instead of a child protagonist.
It's too windy for my feelings
January 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
It's too windy for my feelings
Most of my colleagues took a mini break over Xmas / New Years. I opted for a mini breakdown instead.
January 3, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Most of my colleagues took a mini break over Xmas / New Years. I opted for a mini breakdown instead.
yesterday I wrote the first 500 words of my next project.
today I woke to the realisation that there's a significant plot hole and the set up is entirely derivative.
2025 is off to a great start.
#writingcommunity
today I woke to the realisation that there's a significant plot hole and the set up is entirely derivative.
2025 is off to a great start.
#writingcommunity
December 31, 2024 at 10:58 PM
yesterday I wrote the first 500 words of my next project.
today I woke to the realisation that there's a significant plot hole and the set up is entirely derivative.
2025 is off to a great start.
#writingcommunity
today I woke to the realisation that there's a significant plot hole and the set up is entirely derivative.
2025 is off to a great start.
#writingcommunity
dear parents of teenagers, how do you survive it?
December 31, 2024 at 10:29 PM
dear parents of teenagers, how do you survive it?